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I think about this quite a lot. I feel bad for those people since it is a fact that some of us are privileged – and merely because we happen to be born in certain countries of the world and they are not, shouldn't automatically mean that they will be underprivileged their entire life. This is why it always disgusts me when I hear people talk badly about these immigrants. It's easy to criticise someone when you've been born in a privileged country and had privileges all your life.

However, coming to Europe is not a solution either since not everything that glitters is gold. Assuming that we are now not talking about refugees (i. e. people who are persecuted in their home countries and NEED to escape), I think the majority of these immigrants think that it's going to be relatively easy to make a living here in Europe. But the fact is they generally don't have the same education level as we do in Europe (i. e. finding a good job will be practically impossible), a lot people have prejudices against them; they will have a very, very hard time in general. So as sad as it is, if they leave for economic reasons, it's not very realistic to think that the future that awaits them in Europe (if they make it here alive) will be that much brighter.

I agree with those who have stated that we need to go to the source, i. e. their home countries and tackle the problem there. Of course that is easier said than done, but ideally, we should all find ways to help them to build a good economy, enable them to have good education and enable their countries to grow the way ours have, so that they no longer feel like they've got no future in their countries.

I think the consensus is that if we improved conditions in source countries it might stem the flow but as you stated that is easier said than done. I think that immigration is one of those issues with no rights or wrongs - We need controlled immigration but where do we place the controls seems to be the controversial aspects of the plan.

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It's a huge problem in the USA and there's been talk of building a huge wall along the entire border with Mexico. We round up illegals and send them back but they just keep coming. You can't blame them for wanting a developed country for a better life. The solution would be their leaders make their countries more prosperous

Illegal immigration is a huge problem in the USA, especially here in southern California where I live.

Illegal immigrants are a drain on the nation's tax pool (welfare and government offered services like child care and health care). Many of them work "under the table", thus aren't getting taxed yet draining the tax pool.

Here in southern California, being bilingual is so unnecessarily an asset. Why? To cater to illegals (which most here in southern California are Spanish speaking). Funny how an entire state's economy has catered to illegals. Rather sad I must say.

Lastly, governing bodies in the USA are literally afraid to instill stricter immigration laws and regulations! Why? Because the Latino population in America is growing so exponentially, that the Latino vote has swung American elections in the past 15+ years... and these government parties want to cater to them to gain or retain their votes.

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It's a huge mess for the USA, I can imagine it is similar for other nations as well.

Yes I remember reading an article about the growing latino population that they reckoned at some stage in the future Spanish would be americas first language - Europe is at the asylum stage even if that door was closed, vast numbers would still come and work in the black economy.

I don't to sound racist but I think Europe should be for us Europeans only. And before any of the ''oh, but you colonized and enslaved half of the world before ao it's only fair'', yeah... after being invaded several times by foreigners. And also, only Western Europe did, us Eastern Europeans never even had slaves.

The real truth is some type of clean energy. Maybe thorium nuclear power. Better solar and batteries. Reality is a lot of these people leave poor countries because large western governments stop them from developing there resources the way they would like to support there people. We won't let them develop the resources cheaply due to the environmental impacts. It all really gets down to overpopulation at the end of the day. So some combination of increased development of cleaner energy technologies, and worldwide polices to encourage population reduction

@reptocarl From my understanding with UN policy they are able to make environmental restrictions to stop for instance African countries from building cheap coal burning power plants.With access to affordable electricity and the societal benefits that would go along with it. Populations would be growing even more than they are growing now. Which is actually bad for humanity overallGenetic technologies are also extremely important to the future and because of that perserving genetic biodiversity is far more important to life and humanity than allowing set group of people to develop resources in a way that's harmful. Especially when you have no deterrent from stopping them. Is nuclear weapons.

@reptocarl that would seem right. To me it looks like unless they have a sufficient enough military deterrent its nothing they can do. Im sure we give them lots of money just not sure under what guise we do it

I wondered about that too and the answer that was given was that the UK processes its asylum applications faster than France, which means that asylum seekers are not left in limbo for inordinate lengths of time. I found that an unsatisfactory answer. It implies that the UK is the fastest state in the EU to process asylum applications when other states are far less anti-immigrant.

This is all part of human evolution. Those people were living their secluded yet comfortable lives in their own countries before the world nations messed it up by invading and deposing their bigamist dictators.